Discovery of the Chiral Majorana Fermion: Shoucheng Zhang

Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University) speaks at the Fred Kavli Special Symposium at the APS March Meeting 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. See abstract below.
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Discovery of the chiral Majorana fermion and its application to topological quantum computing
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Majorana fermion is a hypothetical fermionic particle which is its own anti-particle. Intense research efforts focus on its experimental observation as a fundamental particle in high energy physics and as a quasi-particle in condensed matter systems. We have theoretically predicted the chiral Majorana fermion in a hybrid structure of quantum anomalous Hall thin film coupled with a conventional superconductor, and proposed the half-integer quantized conductance plateau as its compelling signature. Recently, this theoretical prediction has been experimentally realized in magnetically doped topological insulator coupled with Nb superconductor and the half plateau quantization has been observed. I shall discuss a new proposal to braid the chiral Majorana fermion in a Corbino device geometry. The discovery of the chiral Majorana fermion leads to new avenues towards topological quantum computing, which could be much faster compared to Majorana zero modes.

[@iamsteelball]

R.I.P. Shou-cheng Zhang, we greatly miss you.

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

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[@francols6261]

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[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

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[@carnsoaks1]

YES, door opener for future research positivity MSSM Strings, MultiD. Give them billions please

[@apareek96]

Sad news for the physics community. My condolences to the family

[@chung-holin3554]

Rest in peace....:(

[@yin-chengkrishuang8405]

R.I.P. Professor Zhang

[@CraisonBailum]

It's almost like someone kills these people on the verge of great discoveries with gargantuan commercial applications. "Dies from depression". Yep try another one.

[@YH-eh8sg]

R.I.P.

[@KoDeMondo]

E. Majorana a genius! Enrico Fermi compared him to the same level Newton. The Majorana machine.. Can prove that.

[@Mgaak]

So Majorana conductance is 1/4th of normal conductance. This is due to the nonexistence of double degeneracy ? Namely the spin and particle/antiparticle ?

[@manjsher3094]

It's sad, but better he did not live to see that Majorana particle doesn't exist.

[@aurora7207]

Directional mics, smh